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Today I’m going to show you one of my favorite concealers: MUFE Full Cover. What I like the most about this concealer is the consistency: it’s somewhere between thick and fluid. That consistency makes the concealer perfect for any use. You can use it for under eye circles because it’s not too thick and it blends perfectly into your skin providing more coverage than a regular fluid concealer would. You can also use it for blemishes because it isn’t too fluid so it covers everything nicely.

The downside to this product is the price, it’s pretty expensive for a concealer. I have to say, though, that I have my tube for over a year now and I just used half of it because you use just a little bit of the concealer to cover a lot. So, you have to think what is more worth it: pay more money at first and don’t repurchase the product in a long time or buy a cheaper one that lasts less? My advice is to ask for a sample of this concealer to try it out and if you think it works for you can invest in it.

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If you read my posts you probably know that I normally use Catrice’s mascara. Well, I bought that great (and cheap!) macara in Germany and since I live in Spain and we don’t have Catrice products here I had to get a new one from another brand but I didn’t want to spend a lot of money. I think drugstore mascaras are as good (or better) than high brand mascaras so, I ended up choosing the Essence Multi Action False Lashes Mascara. I buy a lot of products from Essence, specially nail polishes, and some German friends told me how good this mascara was, and when I found out that it only costs 2,99 € I knew this was going to be my choice!

So, I find the packaging ok, it’s not very high brand looking but it doesn’t feel cheap either and I like the fact that it has the green and yellow pattern on it because so I can recognize it better among my other makeup products. The wand is a regular wand…there is nothing special about it, it’s not too big and it isn’t curved like others. You can see in the pictures that this mascara isn’t necessarily a lengthening mascara but it definitely gives volume to the lashes (and that’s what I was going for). Although my eyelashes look like spider legs in the pictures (because of how close the pictures are) I like how the lashes look like. I’m really pleased with the result and another good thing about this mascara is that it doesn’t smudge through out the day.

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Today I’m going to tell you about Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics (OCC) Lip tars. These lip tars are a very unique lip product: it’s somewhere between a lip stick and a gloss. It comes in a tube and has a glossy finish but it has a lot of pigmentation to it and is obviously more opaque than a gloss. The fun part about these lip tars is the fact that they can be mixed together in order to create new colors. This is a huge plus since you can buy a few of them and have a lot of colors. That’s also the reason why you’ll find “strange” colors like blue, green, white or black: they are normally used to mix with other colors and create lighter shades for example. A tiny bit of product goes a long way so they are supposed to last a long time. Anyway, many of you are aware of the hype about the OCC lip tars but I found that there are some cons that nobody mentions in their reviews that have to be taken in account before buying any of these.

Things I don’t like:

– After a while (some hours) the color becomes lighter or even white at some spots on your lips. It’s like it has dried out or something like that and that’s obviously not pretty at all.

– As they have a glossy finish/texture, they tend to bleed into the skin.

– The biggest problem about these: after some time (3 months more or less) the gloss part and the pigmented part separate from each other in the tube. After a few months not using the colors I wanted to try them out and, at first, only clear gloss came out. I wasted a lot of product before the actual color came out!

So, I like the colors and the main idea of using them mixed together but I really am disappointed with the hold over the months. I have lost so much product just trying to get the color again! I would recommend to buy just one or two colors if you aren’t going to use them regularly or maybe pour them in an other container where it’s easier to mix again when the color starts to separate from the base.

Now I’ll show you some swatches and a picture of the black one (I couldn’t even swatch it) with the problem I told you.

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Today I’m going to show you my favorite everyday lip combination. I use a lip pencil as a base (all over the lip) and than I use a lipgloss. The lip pencil helps the lipgloss to stay on longer and it gives a pink hint to the brown lipgloss. I’m not a huge lip stick/gloss fan, I’m more into eye makeup, but I wear this a lot! Now I’m having a lot of fun playing with my lip products, specially searching for daytime color combinations.

By the way, I hace avery fair skin (lighter than MAC NC15 for reference) so, this color isn’t too dark if you’re as pale as me.

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Since OPI released their Katy Perry collection and the black crackle nail polish Black Shatter I was hoping that China Glaze would do the same and when I heard from this collection I patiently waited over a month to order them! Now I’m the happy owner of the six colors of the collection! I don’t know what it is about the crackle finish that I like that much, maybe the edgy effect, but I’m really into this trend although it doesn’t actually look “pretty”.

I used a neutral base color for the swatches and I tried to use the same color (as long as it would contrast with the crackle nail polish) so you can compare the colors better. I didn’t use top coat so you could see the matte finish of the nail polish. Unfortunately the lightning was very bad because it’s raining here in Madrid, so excuse the not so good pictures, but I wanted to post this as soon as possible so you could see the colors if you’re interested in buying them because there are online stores where they are already sold out.

Let me know what you think of this new nail polish trend, do you like it?

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Today I’m going to show you the second palette I got from Sleek, the Storm Palette. If you want to know what I think of the eyeshadows, the packaging and so on, check out the Original Palette Review I did clicking here.

I think the color selection of the Storm Palette is great because you get a first row of neutral light colors and a second row of dark colors. You can do wearable daytime looks and smokey dark looks for the night. If I had to choose one of the two Sleek palettes that I own for a trip I would definitely choose this one because of the versatility. I love that the palette includes three basic matte eyeshadows (black, light brown and medium brown)

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Say hello to my new love: the Sleek Original Palette! I just got this palette and the Storm palette and I’m impressed with the quality of both of them (but today I’m just going to show you the Original one). The colors are so beautiful, all of them have shimmer except for the black one that is matte and the pigmentation of all of them is great. The consistence is a little bit on the powdery side, but I didn’t have any fallouts when applying the colors. Although the size seems to be a lot smaller than a MAC eyeshadow, the Sleek eyeshadows have 1,1 g and the MAC 1,4, so there isn’t that much of a difference. I also really loved the packaging because it’s not cheap looking and it’s very compact. The palette has also a mirror so it’s great for travelling, you just need one palette and you have a lot of colors and a mirror. It came with a sponge applicator but I don’t use them and I took it away before I took the photos…sorry!

The price was 8,50 € for all the 12 eyeshadows, you can’t beat that price!

I highly, highly recommend this palette!

I hope this was helpful, comment bellow if you have the palette and want to share your opinion or if you want me to try any look with these colors!

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Today I’ll show you my favorite MAC eye shadows. I chose the ones I thought are really worth it and unique or very pretty. MAC has a lot of other beautiful eye shadows but you can find dupes for them or they just aren’t that special. These are the ones I absolutely love and that I would repurchase. I didn’t include highlighters because every brand has at least one pretty highlighter (or neutral color) and I’m going to write a post just about them anyway. I only included eye shadows from their permanent collection, because I wanted to show you just the ones you can actually buy whenever you want.

They are listed in no particular order and I added the MAC finishes in brackets.

I hope this is helpful, and comment below if you recommend other colors different than these.

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Recently I purchased this Sugarpill quad and single eye shadow. Sugarpill is a fairly new company that offers very bright and fun colors. In their online-shop you can not only find pressed eye shadows, you can also find very beautiful pigments.

I don’t know if this applies to all the countries or just to Spain, but the shipping was very fast (just one week) and the price is very good compared to other webshops.

The presentation was the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. It all came wrapped in pink paper, with stickers and cards. Amy, Sugarpill’s owner, wrote herself a little “thank you” on the billing. I really like those kind of details. The packaging of the products is very fun and I’m keeping the packaging just because I find it soo pretty. I think Suarpill’s design is so cool.